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by katamarimambo 905 days ago
Cookie (Informatique) is always the daily most viewed page in french, and by large margin. This does not seem to be the case for any other language. I wonder why
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Maybe some big website refers to that page in their cookie banner?
My guess would be that every French government website uses the same cookie banner and it includes a link to the Wikipedia article

Mmmh... biscuits...

We have that filed in our bug tracker back in July 2022 and when I looked at the issue ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T313114#8093706 ) almost all of the traffic came from a handful of IP addresses. Thus it is most probably some kind of probe, maybe to check whether internet is reachable.

As a result of the bug above, the entry is filtered out when post processing, but the page view dataset used for https://pagevews.wmcloud.org/ relies on the raw aggregated data.